Стрельцов Дмитрий Викторович
Published: Sept. 1, 2016
В статье рассмотрены особенности системы доминантной партии в Японии в период существования «системы 1955 года» (1955-1993). Особое внимание уделяется тем политическим технологиям, которые правящая Либерально-демократическая партия использовала для удержания своего господства при сохранении всех демократических процедур: методам электоральной политики; методам достижения консенсуса на основе внутрипартийного баланса сил с целью недопущения раскола; методам обновления имиджа партии путем смены руководства; технологиям внесения раскола в ряды оппозиции. По мнению автора, одной из причин устойчивости феномена доминантной партии в Японии является «зависимость от накатанного пути», которая воспроизводит общенациональную политическую модель в различных исторических обстоятельствах.
Тихоцкая Ирина Сергеевна
Published: Feb. 19, 2016
После краткого исторического экскурса в статье анализируются особенности подхода Японии к решению экологических проблем и распространению экологических знаний, законодательство в области защиты окружающей среды от загрязнения, а также экологический след человечества в целом и Японии.
Тимонина Ирина Львовна
Published: Feb. 19, 2016
В статье анализируется современное состояние экономических отношений России и Японии, факторы, влияющие на динамику и структуру экономических связей двух стран, определяются перспективные направления развития взаимовыгодного сотрудничества. Автор показывает, что значимость экономического взаимодействия между Россией и Японией для каждой из стран нельзя оценивать только по статистическим данным. Важно понимать, решению каких стратегических задач социально-экономического развития страны, отдельных отраслей, производств, регионов, может способствовать экономическое сотрудничество с партнером.
Hatice Sancar-Tokmak
Hikmet Surmeli
Sinan Ozgelen
Published: July 7, 2014
The aim of this case study was to examine pre-service science teachers’ (PSTs) perceptions of their Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) development after creating digital stories based on science topics drawn from the national curriculum. A total of 21 PSTs enrolled in Introduction to Computers II participated in the study. Data were collected through a demographics questionnaire, a TPACK diagram, an open-ended questionnaire, interviews, and observations. During the study, feedback was provided to participants during each step of the digital storytelling process: writing the stories, finding related pictures, matching the pictures to the stories; and preparing the digital files. The …
Florence Le Hebel
Pascale Montpied
Valérie Fontanieu
Published: July 7, 2014
The purpose of this study is to investigate the environmental attitudes (EA) in the population of 15-year-old French students and, to check if the French student population presents similar EA categorization as described in the different models in the literature (e.g. the Model of Ecological Values, Wiseman & Bogner 2003). The second aim of this study is to identify the different factors influencing students’ EA. We analyse the results of the questionnaire-based Relevance of Science Education Project carried out in France in 2008 as a part of a wider international comparative study ROSE (Relevance Of Science Education). The hierarchical ascendant …
Azra Moeed
Published: Oct. 10, 2013
Internationally, learning science through investigation is promoted as a preferred pedagogical approach. Research presented takes a view that such learning depends on how teachers understand science investigation. Teachers‘ understanding of science investigation was an aspect of an interpretive case study of the phenomenon of science investigation exploring the links between learning, motivation and assessment in year 11 science. Data were collected through a population survey of year 11 science teachers (n=165) in the greater Wellington region through a postal questionnaire (response rate 61%). In addition, all year 11 science teachers in a typical coeducational, middle size, urban secondary school were …
Marc Behrendt
Teresa Franklin
Published: July 7, 2014
The purpose of this paper is to examine the importance of science field trips as educational tools to connect students to classroom concepts. Experiential learning at formal and informal field trip venues increases student interest, knowledge, and motivation. The teacher's role in preplanning, implementation, and reflection often dictates the impact that the field trip will have on students. Science teacher education programs do not traditionally instruct preservice teachers how to plan or coordinate a field trip. Once teachers are empowered and learn how to develop and orchestrate a successful field trip, they will enable students to develop interest in science, …
Yannis Hadzigeorgiou
Michael Skoumios
Published: June 26, 2013
This paper focuses upon the problem of raising environmental awareness in the context of school science. By focusing, as it does, on the relationship between the self and the natural environment, the paper discusses the difficulties that exist, such as the students’ involvement with the natural world, as their object of study, the empirical treatment and the modeling of the natural world, and the purpose of learning science, as well as the possibilities for promoting the development of such relationship by keeping the natural world, as an object of study, in the foreground of the teachinglearning process. Such possibilities refer …
Mahsa Kazempour
Aidin Amirshokoohi
Published: July 7, 2014
The literature on professional development is replete with studies that utilize survey, interview, and classroom observation data, primarily collected post professional development experience, to explore teachers’ knowledge, beliefs, and actions; however, we lack a clear understanding of teachers’ learning process and reflections during the professional development. The current study aims to address the abovementioned gaps in the literature, by utilizing participant reflections and assignments during a summer professional development opportunity, to elucidate the process by which teachers learn about inquiry-based teaching and begin to implement it in their planning, in addition to factors they deem influential in this process. The …
Kristin Cook
Cassie Quigley
Published: April 10, 2013
In this study, we investigated the ways in which university students connected with science through the use of photovoice (Wang & Burris, 1994) as a pedagogical tool. Results indicated that students came to appreciate their connections to the science that operates in their lives as they reflected on and became empowered with regard to the science content behind environmental issues of interest to them on campus. Photovoice allowed students to authentically inquire about local science, as well as the potential to generate change in their own community. This understanding is significant to science educators because first, it empowers learners to …